2005

Press releases

Unilever today announced it has signed a contract to outsource significant parts of its financial transactional services to IBM. This agreement covers more than 20 European countries and is part of the One Unilever programme, which aims to streamline the organisation in order to increase competitiveness in the marketplace and step up growth.

Rotterdam, 18 November.- The Dutch Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal by Unilever N.V. against the decision taken by the Enterprise Chamber of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal to start an inquiry with regard to the NLG 0.10 preference shares Unilever N.V.

Unilever PLC and Unilever NV announce the commencement of the share buy-back programme of up to €500 million aggregate market value in shares in the capital of Unilever NV and/or Unilever PLC announced in February 2005.

On 10 May 2005, the general meeting of shareholders of Unilever N.V. resolved to cancel all outstanding cumulative preference shares each with a nominal value of NLG 0.10 (approximately EUR 0.05) in the share capital on Unilever N.V.

Further to the announcement on 3 May Unilever N.V. announces that a request has been submitted to the Companies Division of the Amsterdam Court regarding the 5 eurocents preference shares Unilever N.V.

The Board of Unilever N.V. today announced it has decided to convert the 5 Eurocents preference shares Unilever N.V. of 1999 into Unilever N.V. ordinary shares on 15 February 2005 after close of trading.